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"Ice sheets do not "fly through the air" Small chunks of snow do, but the ice tends to fall off the back, or slide off the side when going around a corner."

They do and at times at high velocity and up to several feet in the air. Again, just because you have not experienced it, doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

You assume alot and express your opinions as fact. Do you have a delivery truck and are you going to quit delivering? That argument is absurd - they deliver or they do not make money. Do you think that Massachussets will no longer get goods and services due to this legislation? You probably do. Also, the legislation would apply to cars.

How do you feel about the removal of stop signs? If you do not like the idea, why not? After all, if you cannot avoid cars lurching in your direction at intersections, perhaps you should remain in bed, too.

""""You assume alot and express your opinions as fact. Do you have a delivery truck and are you going to quit delivering? That argument is absurd - they deliver or they do not make money. Do you think that Massachussets will no longer get goods and services due to this legislation? You probably do. Also, the legislation would apply to cars.""""

No, actually I drive a semi-truck, an 18 wheeler refrigerated van. (yeah, you know, one of those big scary trucks -to paraphrase Howie Carr-) And, I realize this may sound unbelievable to you, but I have seen the snow and ice chunks fall off of many vehicles over the past 10+ years on the road.

Many drivers have a name for the ice/snow that falls off of our trucks in the winter months. We call them "tailgate preventer's".

I do know this. Just as many drivers will no longer go to New Jersey because they have forbidden passage through that state on other than the main interstate routes (other than local delivery) If you make silly, hard to accomplish laws against operations of the big trucks in order to please the timid 4 wheeler public, than most of the drivers I know will just refuse load to such a nanny-state state. And that causes the cost of booking freight into and out of those states to rise. So, go ahead, pass the nanny-state laws, it is just then public that will pay for it in the end. It would be wise to not forget about the law of unintended consequences.